Falling For Rapunzel
If you know the classic Rapunzel tale you will love the twist that Leah Wilcox put on this classic and for others this book is definitely a keeper. Told with bright vibrant illustrations and a rhyming text, this book is hilarious. As the prince rides by on his horse, he hears the princess from high up in her castle crying how the luster has gone out of her hair. Hoping to help her, he calls out to her from below but the princess has a hard hearing what the prince has to say. The prince is quite patient and persistent as he yells from below and he thinks of quite a variety of ways to help her escape but every time the princess hears the wrong thing and out goes something the prince doesn’t want. “Rapunzel, Rapunzel, throw down your hair!” She thought he said, “Your underwear,” “and out the window four pairs of underpants fly and land on the prince and his horse. He said curly locks, she thought dirty socks, he said ladder, she thought pancake batter, and these are just a few of the wordplays that the two youngsters have in this book. It’s the rhyme and rhythm that propels you forward as the book just keeps getting better and better as I waited for the princess to leap into his arms. The ending was not what I expected but it does end with a happily ever after. I will definitely be buying this one.
